State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy is a 1,000 cell, all male, Medium-Security, correctional facility located along Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
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| Location | West Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania |
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| Security class | Medium-Security |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Opened | July. 1993 |
| Managed by | Pennsylvania Department of Corrections |
Construction of SCI-Mahanoy edit
Mahanoy was one of four[1] 1,000-bed medium-security correctional facilities constructed in Pennsylvania around the same time. The facility cost $117 Million to construct and is on a 222-acre tract of land that was originally leased by the county commissioners. Construction began in July 1991 and the prison opened two years later.
Notable inmates edit
- Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the murder of Daniel Faulkner
- Mark Canty, convicted in the Murder of Lauretha Vaird
- David Freeman, convicted in the Freeman family murders
- Joshua Komisarjevsky, convicted in the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders
- Robert Nauss, convicted of the murder of Elizabeth Lande
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Schuylkill To Get New State Prison" – Reading Eagle, 5/8/1991 (Retrieved: 5/7/2011).